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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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 Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject: Be careful when eating at Korean BBQ food/restaurants! |
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Check it out. Today my wife told me about an expose show on TV where they said that Korean BBQ restaurants use hydrochloric acid to clean off the dirty grills. She said that the large restaurants (over 2000 square feet) have stopped doing this, but everyone else is still doing it. Said that after watching that show, she will never eat BBQ in a restaurant again.
She also said that they did chemical analysis tests on the cleaned grills as they sat down to eat at a number of restaurants and the results showed that there's enough harmful chemicals still on there to cause serious health concerns over a period of time.
Scary shit man...scary shit. |
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Kimchieluver
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Come to think of it ... I was feeling a little green today. |
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CeleryMan
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Is that necessarily worse than recycled kimchee or Hep riddled utensils? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Ick. Just ick. Just as I'm on the way out the door for some kalbi, too. |
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curtiscurtis
Joined: 28 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:46 am Post subject: |
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| Man wtf is wrong with Koreans? |
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meangradin
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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This is why i tackle the servers when they come to replace the grill every 5 minutes; let me see, some burned, charred residue, or a "clean" screen covered in chemicals.
Bon Appetite! |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:08 am Post subject: |
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And I had some not three hours ago.
Could explain my inability to pronounce the letter "S" now... |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| What about 김밥나라 restaurants? Man, I eat at those bad boys every day. Three dollar 비빔밥s make me happy. |
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The Perfect Cup of Coffee
Joined: 17 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
| What about 김밥나라 restaurants? Man, I eat at those bad boys every day. Three dollar 비빔밥s make me happy. |
Those are alright, it's just that damn fried egg that's been laying around on a plate on the counter for 2-3 hours. Some of those places sure as hell aren't frying them up fresh, that's for sure. Ouch. |
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Sainter
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
Location: Nokbeon, Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:42 am Post subject: |
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| The Soju is very helpful in neutralising the chemical imbalance |
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The Perfect Cup of Coffee
Joined: 17 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| Sainter wrote: |
| The Soju is very helpful in neutralising the chemical imbalance |
I suppose it should, it's pretty much a cleaning solvent. |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| Soju! Nectar of the Gods!! |
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The Perfect Cup of Coffee
Joined: 17 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:11 am Post subject: |
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Here's my soju face:
Nasty, nasty stuff. |
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Kimchi Cowboy
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| Superfly wrote: |
| Today my wife told me about an expose show on TV where they said that Korean BBQ restaurants use hydrochloric acid to clean off the dirty grills... (T)here's enough harmful chemicals still on there to cause serious health concerns over a period of time.... |
MMMMmmmmmmore sizzle for my nizzle!
(I always wondered how they got those grills so clean!) |
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Vicissitude
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| Kimchi Cowboy wrote: |
| (I always wondered how they got those grills so clean!) |
Dito! But I don't think it's worth getting paranoid over. Afterall, it's a food ingredient and unless it a very high dose, it can't hurt you. Otherwise we'd all be dead. We've been eating food with hydrochloric acid in it all our lives.
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Other applications
Hydrochloric acid is a fundamental chemical, and as such it is used for a large number of small-scale applications, ...
Many chemical reactions involving hydrochloric acid are applied in the production of food, food ingredients, and food additives. Typical products include aspartame, fructose, citric acid, lysine, hydrolyzed (vegetable) protein as food enhancer, and in gelatin production. Food-grade (extra-pure) hydrochloric acid can be applied when needed for the final product.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrochloric_acid
Not to mention the fact that it's produced in our stomachs and we need a proper balance of it there:
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CHECK YOUR STOMACH FOR SUFFICIENT HYDROCHLORIC ACID
To test for sufficient hydrochloric acid -
You need betaine hydrochloride tablets plus enzymes - they are available from health food shops.
Take half a tablet before the last mouthful of a main meal. Burning or indigestion means you have plenty of hydrochloric acid. Don't take any more tablets. Use antacid or teaspoonful of bicarbonate to relieve discomfort.
If no burning or indigestion, next day take 1 tablet in the same way. If still no burning or indigestion, next day take 2 tablets in the same way. If still no burning or indigestion, then you need more acid.
There are other tests for stomach PH but they're all invasive.
So if you need more acid, then you take 2 betaine hydrochloric acid tablets with main meals and 1 tablet with small meals. Swedish bitters can also help, as can wine with meals and eating calmly and enjoying food. |
http://www.rheumatic.org/hcl.htm
Last edited by Vicissitude on Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:36 am; edited 1 time in total |
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